Sometimes it is hard to see where the next dead end will come flying into the journey that you are currently traveling until you get there and are forced to make the decision to turn around.
Turning around doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It doesn’t have to mean that you have to start completely over but if it does we have to trust that it will turn out OK.
Don’t get me wrong. It won’t be easy because fighting the good fight generally isn’t but like I have been told time and time again it will be worth it.
I’m currently in a philosophy class that is stretching my perceptions and making me truly think about some really interesting things. When I was first posed with the question, “If God is all good and all loving, why is there evil in the world?” I was kind of put off, but it is that very question that has helped me search myself and The Word and become more confident in the answers.
I know as a Christian I do not have to defend God, and that’s not what I’m setting out to do. But what I feel is important for all of the agnostic people who were once believers to understand is that yes sometimes God allows bad things to enter our lives but that isn’t because He himself created the bad thing, it’s because He gave us free-will.
I’m a firm believer that testimony is the best way to show God’s grandeur and to bring people to God. As Christians, know there is power in your story and it can serve as a way to help others through dark times and can help them see the light of God more clearly in their circumstances.
God doesn’t want us to hurt but sometimes we hurt because sin was brought into this world right from the beginning in Genesis when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit. That wasn’t God bringing sin; God didn’t create sin, but instead gave Adam and Eve free-will and through temptation, the world was changed forever.
So if you are in a spot right now where you are hurting, take heart in knowing that although you hurt now the God of the universe is on your side. If you don’t believe in God and you are struggling to find your way out of a dark spot I encourage you to seek help and seek a deeper understanding because there is hope for tomorrow, it just may not seem like it right now.
Romans 5:1-5
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.